Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Wesp5]

Wesp5 :
TimCain

Hm, but he hasn't been active here for 6 years now...

 

[NecroLord]

Wesp5 :
TimCain

Hm, but he hasn't been active here for 6 years now...

He could've logged in every now and then...

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Was he ever active here or do some of the Codexers attack him in the YouTube comments?

He's posted a few times. He used to pop on the IRC channel occasionally back in the day.

Tim recently has reminded me of "You can please all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all the time, but never all of the people all of the time." I think he thinks the latter is possible, if you're nice enough.

Tim's an older gay dude. When I was in college, I had a part time gig as a pizza delivery driver. This was decades ago. You want to know who the best demographic was for tips back in the day? Gay men. I asked a gay dude that did the same thing why gay men tipped so well, and he said it was because they had a need to be liked. This was back in the 1990s, not many people gave two shits if someone was gay. It wasn't "In your face" the way it is today. But I could always count on at least a $5 tip any time a gay dude wanted pizza.

 

[Roguey]

why does he keep saying that fallout 1 had too many numbers? is this really a thing?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-a-better-rpg-seven-mistakes-to-avoid.114809/

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

Gatekeeping is futile.

Trust in Free Market. Trust in Capitalism. If "Gatekeeping" is truly the way forward, It would've been the way forward, but that wasn't the case.

Happy Pride month!

 

[NecroLord]

Happy Suicide Prevention month!!!

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about lessons I learned from my hobbies and other activities that I applied to game design.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Somebody has figured out that soyface on the thumbnail generates more views.

 

[NecroLord]

Somebody has figured out that soyface on the thumbnail generates more views.

Tim just gained a new perk.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Somebody has figured out that soyface on the thumbnail generates more views.

Actually, the opposite has been true for years now. Somebody tell him please.

 

[Alienman]

Somebody has figured out that soyface on the thumbnail generates more views.

Tim just gained a new perk.

You mean shape.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about how it happened that I made one last game in the role of Game Director, for The Outer Worlds.

 

[Alienman]

The mysterious "Obsidian founders" strike again.

 

[Quillon]

I talk about how it happened that I made one last game in the role of Game Director, for The Outer Worlds.

So Leonard got "such a big role" again in the sequel. I thought they pretty much handed it over to other leads. We'll see if he'll redeem himself with a narrative worth playing this time. Its too bad they hired back Kate D tho

 

[NecroLord]

We'll see if he'll redeem himself with a narrative worth playing this time.

The Outer Worlds was shit.
He's got A LOT of redeeming to do...

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

There was a good game deep in there somewhere but they were not able to bring it to the surface.

 

[NecroLord]

There was a good game deep in there somewhere but they were not able to bring it to the surface.

Truly an underrated masterpiece...

 

[Roguey]

Tim alludes to the broken promise of "Don't second-guess my decisions."

He also talks about how he was included in some email chains presumably related to Pillars of Eternity and thought "glad that's not me that has to deal with this," retells the story of how the Obsidian founders wasted everyone's time by asking the devs to submit game pitches and rejecting every single one of them before they finally came out and said "give us Fallout in Space pitches," and how he thought he was giving them an impossible demand by saying he would only direct if they would hire Boyarsky as a co-lead.

 

[0sacred]

This Leonard/Cain bromance is brought up in every video. I wonder how much of it is in Tim's head.

Also how many times Leonard fell asleep in the office due to a roofie in his drink

 

[NecroLord]

This Leonard/Cain bromance is brought up in every video. I wonder how much of it is in Tim's head.

Also how many times Leonard fell asleep in the office due to a roofie in his drink

You think Tim wanted to try out Leonard's Vault opening?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

There was a good game deep in there somewhere but they were not able to bring it to the surface.

Truly an underrated masterpiece...

Hardly, but there's couple of maps that I thought were lovely. Groundbreaker is amazing. That bigass dungeon on Rosewater is also great. Pig factory was fun.

If they leaned more in that deus-exy direction I think it would be much better game, but for some reason they decided to mostly have open world areas and all of those are god damn awful.

 

[NecroLord]

Hardly

Sarcasm Alert, bro...
Game is just shit.
A far cry from the former creativity of the Fallout and Troika days...

 

[Alienman]

You think Tim wanted to try out Leonard's Vault opening?

Vault 69, am I right?

 

[NecroLord]

You think Tim wanted to try out Leonard's Vault opening?

Vault 69, am I right?

That's the one with only a single dude among a few hundreds of women, I think...

 

[BlackAdderBG]

some email chains presumably related to Pillars of Eternity and thought "glad that's not me that has to deal with this,"

For all its faults Pillars is 10 times better than anything Shit Cain was involved with after Troika. Boyarsky as well, his work on Diablo 3 and Outer Worlds is so bad that I question all of their role in Troika just by what utter shit they produced after. My theory is they were so rapt up in the idea of mass market console shit that made them embarrassed about stuff like ToEE and Arcanum. Funny thing is they are 5-10 years late to the show, now when Biowere and Bethesda are on death bed and TBRPGs are all the rage.